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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1950
Page
5
The excerpt notes Christmas Island in the Central Pacific as the largest land area atoll in the Pacific. It states that Christmas Island is the largest atoll by land area.
The piece surveys varied sports topics including a canceled Charles Beshore fight due to new medical checks, Leo Durocher quipping about minor league balls, Navy spring drills under coach Eddie Erdelatz, Villanova basketball prospects tied to Penn, Hamburg Sport Verein’s May New York visit, Wisconsin baseball outdoor practices ahead of an early schedule, and Frank Filchock returning to Indiana.
White House sources say Frederick J. Lawton, 49, will become Budget Director as Frank Page Jr. leaves for Army Secretary post. Truman contemplates other shifts including Symington to NSRB chair, Pinletter to Air Force Secretary, and vacancies at Atomic Energy Commission and Undersecretary of the Army with Tracy Voorhees leaving by June 30. Whitney resigns as Undersecretary of Commerce effective May 1.
Walcott’s claim for the heavyweight championship is filed with the national boxing association in case Ezzard Charles retires due to injury. Also notes coach movements and sports newsroom items on college basketball and golf pros, plus Canadian and U.S. newsprint production figures.
A C Stickley 92 longtime Strasburg lawyer dies. He served Riverview Cemetery Assn and was a Sparmont Lodge member. Born May 31 1857 near Strasburg son of Levi and Eliza Stickley. Survived by three sisters in law and nieces and nephews. Funeral at Strasburg Christian Church 2 30 p m tomorrow with Rev Nelson M Fox officiating. Burial Riverview Cemetery.
Czechoslovakia ordered the expulsion of the last American AP correspondent Nathan Polowetsky after refusing to renew credentials expiring March 31 he was given April 8 to depart the country. Foreign Ministry cited unobjective reporting as the reason and warned more western reporters may be expelled.
President George L. Killion announced that 1,600 foreign nationals including about 400 Americans would be evacuated from Shanghai on a China Navigation Co. ship. The Gen. W. H. Gordon had been sent from Yokohama to San Francisco after prior plans stalled. Red officials blocked two vessels from Shanghai Harbor.
Rep Chauncey W Reed urged renewed federal court action against John L Lewis and the United Mine Workers. He said UMW fined Lloyd H Sidener and blacklisted him for trying to obey a government order to end the soft coal strike. Reed urged use of the Civil Rights statute to correct the alleged wrong. Sidener claimed Lewis secretly directed miners to ignore the injunction. Lewis declined to comment.
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